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Subject: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Bobert Date: 15 Jan 03 - 11:29 AM Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr._________ Born January 15, 1929. The world misses your leadership, compassion, wisdom and vision, especially in these times when mankind so desperately needs men with your qualities.... Bless you, Dr, King. Peace, my brother. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Genie Date: 15 Jan 03 - 08:45 PM Good occasion for reviving all those great civil rights and anti-war protest songs from the '60s. We could use a leader like him in the current Peace movement. Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Barry Finn Date: 15 Jan 03 - 09:01 PM Hi Bobert, didn't see this tread. Such a great man to have the distinct honor of having President Bush time his attack on Affirmitive Action out of respect for all his accomplishments on this day. Will he announce war on date of Ghandi's death too. We need more people like him to help us & God with the times that lay ahead. One man who made a great possitive difference in the world & helped to create for all of us a better place to live. Barry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Jan 03 - 09:20 PM Same thought crossed my mind Barry. Sad though.....I doubt it ever crossed Dubya's. Sorry Dr. King.....For you and Malcolm, and Evers and four little girls in Birmingham and the countless others who fought and died in the struggle and those who walked and marched and signed them up and.........yeah, to any who had a part and a continuing part, however small and personal....it's a sad day in many ways. But thanks for what you did while you were here and for the legacy, however well tramplked, that you left. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: GUEST Date: 15 Jan 03 - 09:21 PM I wonder if he liked Stephen Foster's songs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:03 PM Hi, Bobert: Six years ago on a cold, snowy day, I marched in Stamford, Connecticut in memory of Martin Luther King's birthday. It was real nasty out, nut the crowd was in good spirits. I ended up walking next to a guy from my church, and we had a good, long talk. I told him that I was intending to move to the Midwest when I retired, and he said, "Oh, don't ever do that!, I don't even want to hear you say it!" I'd only known him a few weeks, and had probably talked to him two or three times. It was Joe Evans, who later was Best Man when Ruth and I were Married, and sings bass in the Gospel Messengers. In addition to all the good things to celebrate (next Monday, officially) I have a lot to be thankful for, for that celebration six years ago.. Brer Rabbit |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Banjer Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:27 PM Guest, you are a pain in the ass. I am sure that Dr King had the good sense to realize that Foster's songs were not written so long ago to reflect curent events. He probably saw them as a bit of history from which we all can learn. I would be willing to bet he would defend those who choose to keep the songs alive in the name of history, because HE, unlike those of your sorry assed ilk, had sense enough to know that if we ignore our past we will be likely to repeat it. Learn from them and strive for a better future, that's what he would have thought of them. You, GUEST, hiding behind your mantle of obscurity, are enoug to piss off the Pope! As I offered in that other thread, you want my name, PM me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: mousethief Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:34 PM Remember when they used to have the "atomic clock" that moved ahead or back, based on how close the world was to nuclear war? We need a "I have a dream" clock to show how close American society is to the sort of society Dr. King dreamed of. I'm afraid right now the hands would be running backwards fast enough to create quite a breeze. Sigh. RIP, Dr. King. May your memory be eternal. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Bobert Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:34 PM Jerry: A happy 6th (next Monday, officially) to you and Ruthie and I'm real glad you didn't move to the midwest and equally glad that Joe is doing his thing in the GM's. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: katlaughing Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:46 PM Thanks for this thread, Bobert. This is the first time in years that I haven't marched to mark this day. Dr. King, rest in peace and we will try to carry on your legacy as best we can. Respectfully, Kat LaFrance |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Banjer Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:58 PM I apologize to all but GUEST for my tirade above. Why is it that whenever someone mentions anything at all some illiterate asshole has to bring race into it? Why can't we all, black, white, red, yellow or undecided just honor the memory of those who have given their all to try to make this world a better place for all of us? Thank you Dr. King. If any ever have the chance to visit the Petit Bridge outside Selma, Alabama, I urge you to do so! We were there some years ago for a CW reenactment and I made a point of walking on part of the bridge. It's an awesome feeling! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Cluin Date: 15 Jan 03 - 11:01 PM Well, today my new nephew was born. He shares his birthday with a very great man. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: katlaughing Date: 15 Jan 03 - 11:08 PM Congratulations, Cluin and to your new nephew! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Cluin Date: 15 Jan 03 - 11:11 PM The beat goes on, kat. *drinking a toast now to Dr. King and little Connor too* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Ebbie Date: 16 Jan 03 - 02:46 PM To Connor! May he be inspired. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: NicoleC Date: 16 Jan 03 - 02:55 PM There is something seductively tempting about stopping (with a critique of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia) and sending us all off on what in some circles has become a popular crusade against the war in Vietnam. I say we must enter the struggle, but I wish to go on now to say something even more disturbing. The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality... (the) words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken - the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ... The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. MLK, 1967 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Bobert Date: 16 Jan 03 - 03:10 PM Hmmmmmm, Nicole. That last sentence reads eerily like one of the sentences in bin Laden's letter. Think folks are trying to tell *US* something? And, no, no, a thousand times no, Dougie. I am not condoning anything that those criminals did on 9/11. Just making an observation. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: Ebbie Date: 16 Jan 03 - 03:12 PM Ah, now I understand why they hated him!. Thanks for the reminder, Nicole C. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Martin Luther King's Birthday Today From: artbrooks Date: 16 Jan 03 - 04:03 PM A great man who did a lot for all of us. I remember as if it were yesterday walking around campus in shock when he was murdered. We could also pause a moment to remember the other two great Americans born this month, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, without whom Dr. King would not have had a path to follow. And yes, I know both of them, especially Washington, had things about them that are regrettable. |